Pony - Programming language

Pony is an open source programming language created in 2012 by Sylvan Clebsch.

#146on PLDB

12Years Old

549Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc

Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language

Tags: programming language
Pony is developed on GitHub and has 5,654 stars
There are at least 549 Pony repos on GitHub
Early development of Pony happened in https://github.com/ponylang
Pony is written in C, Markdown, C++, YAML, Bash, Dockerfile, CMake, DTrace, PowerShell, Make, D, LLVM IR, Ini
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 59 users using Pony in 78 repos on GitHub
There are 672 members in the Pony subreddit
Explore Pony snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Pony
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Pony
ponylang.org was registered in 2015

Example from the web:

actor Main
 new create(env: Env) =>
   env.out.print("Hello, world!")

actor Main
  var _env: Env

  new create(env: Env) =>
    _env = env
    square(3)

  fun square(num: I32): I32 =>
    num * num

Example from hello-world:

actor Main
  new create(env: Env) =>
    env.out.print("Hello World")

Example from Linguist:

actor Main
  new create(env: Env) =>
    env.out.print("Hello, world.")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓
Line Comments	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		env.out.print